Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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Adam was our forerunner into death, and we have all the power
of his sin and death working in us and drawing us on, so we
have Jesus as our Forerunner into God's presence, with all the
power of His death and His resurrection-life working in us, and
drawing and lifting us in with divine energy into the Father's
presence. Yes, Jesus with His divine. His heavenly life, in the
power of the throne on which He is seated, has entered into the
deepest ground of our being, where Adam, where sin, do their
work, and is there unceasingly carrying out His work of lifting
us heavenward into God's presence, and of making God's
heavenly presence here on earth our portion.
And why is it we enjoy this so little ? And what is needed
that we come to its full enjoyment ? And how can Jesus truly
be to us a great High Priest, giving us our actual life in the
Holiest of All ? One great reason of failure is what the Epistle
so insists on : our ignorance of the spiritual perfection-truth it
seeks to teach, and specially of what the Holy Spirit witnesseth
of the way into the Holiest. And what we need is just this,
that the Holy Spirit Himself, that Jesus in the Holy Spirit, be
waited on, and accepted, and trusted to do the work in power.
Do keep a firm hold of this truth, that when our great High
Priest once for all entered the Holiest, and sat down on the
throne, it was the Holy Ghost sent dotvn in potver into the
Jiearts of His disciples, through whom the heavenly High Priest
became a present and an indivelling Saviour, bringing down with
Him into their hearts the presence and the love of God. That
Pentecostal gift, in the power of the glorified Christ, is the one
indispensable channel of the power of Jesus' priesthood.
Nothing
but the fulness of the Spirit in daily life, making Jesus present
within us, abiding continually, can keep us in the presence of
God as full experience. Jesus is no outward High Priest, who